{"id":2878,"date":"2012-07-24T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:41:03","slug":"sally-ride-i-shared-two-things-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Sally Ride &#8211; I shared two things with her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember &quot;Ride, Sally Ride!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The first American woman in space.<\/p>\n<p>We shared two things &#8211; we were both born in 1951, and we both played rugby!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of articles about her &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-leadership\/post\/remembering-sally-rides-leadership\/2012\/07\/24\/gJQAIpWw6W_blog.html\" target=\"_self\">By becoming the first U.S. woman\u2014and youngest astronaut\u2014in space, Sally Ride, who died Monday from pancreatic cancer, was a pioneer and a trailblazer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But it was what she did with the rest of her career that made her a leader.<\/p>\n<p>And a longer faeture in the NY Times &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/24\/science\/space\/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120724\" target=\"_self\">American Woman Who Shattered Space Ceiling<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dr. Ride, a physicist who was accepted into the space program in 1978  after she answered a newspaper ad for astronauts, flew on the shuttle  Challenger on June 18, 1983, and on a second mission in 1984. At 32, she  was also the youngest American in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember &quot;Ride, Sally Ride!&quot; The first American woman in space. We shared two things &#8211; we were both born in 1951, and we both played rugby! Here are a couple of articles about her &#8211; By becoming the first U.S. woman\u2014and youngest astronaut\u2014in space, Sally Ride, who died Monday from pancreatic cancer, was a pioneer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}